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Permalink Reply by Brad Hackett on December 23, 2007 at 12:53am

I believe that part of this issue is simple ignorance. People do not understand why that service was necessary nor why it has to land where it does, in the case of your chopper, and what the real benefit of that service is. I think there is a huge lack of education for the public on issues like these.

Permalink Reply by Goshen 1130 on January 4, 2008 at 12:54pm

I agree. Lack of education is a problem. Unfortunately our communities cannot afford to send out flyers or have classes to educate the locals.

Permalink Reply by Chris Jasmine on April 14, 2008 at 8:42pm

Another issue would be that even if you could and the public did sit through the classes. Would they change there ways or still be ignorant and do everything the same as they did before?!? I think there are very few people out there that would actually change how the act towards us while we are trying to direct them off to a different route than they want to take.

Permalink Reply by Firewalker343 on June 2, 2008 at 1:49pm

This is one of the problems that my station is having too. We try to have events and invite the publc out often. We do open houses once a month. Plus other activities like breakfasts, car washes, dinners, and various other activities. We are doing a BBQ for Terrace days.
Unfortunatly there will always be people who hate us; until we show up and pull them out of their burning house. Then a week later they hate us again. Can't please everyone I guess.

Permalink Reply by Justin Buck on September 27, 2008 at 12:24am

i dont know y people are like that we got some people here that are like that

Permalink Reply by Ben "Batman" Barry on May 25, 2009 at 8:10pm

yeah i have seen people like that. they complain about response times when they dont get out of the way. i have people who think just because i am a kid means that they dont have to listen to me. that happened once then i involved mr. guy with police badge. people think that they dont have to listen to explorers because we are kids. i ran into a situation where i was responding to a call on foot at a fair and me, my partner, 2 ems explorers on bikes, 2 pd explorers on bikes and the medic on the gator we have screaming for people to get out of the way. some listened but most would not move.

Permalink Reply by Kathy Appleby on June 17, 2009 at 8:33am

The general public sees the fire department as a place where firefighters hang out and drink. There are always exceptions to the rules. I know alot of volunteers who give up there time, miss family functions in order to help thier community. I think its hard for those who arent in the field to understand what we go through and what we give of ourselves and no matter how much teaching you give to the public they just dont get it. we finally got our outside sirens reconnected 2yrs ago because the school was complaining that it disrupted them. Your right when you said that if the tables were turned and it was that persons family member then it would be a different story.

Permalink Reply by Lloyd K. Smith on July 4, 2009 at 7:39pm

For people that are like your coach, they will never understand what we are trying to get done and what is at stake until they are put into that kind of asituation. Even then, when it isn't happening to them again they will go right back to the way that they were before. There is nothing that we can do about it.